So, we’re able to provide a more holistic experience of our community,” says Rigg. “It’s incredible because we’ve built this amazing network of queer creators across the world who don’t just speak English and aren’t from our particular background. Rainbow History’s faculty is growing too, regularly platforming queer folks the world over who want to share their culture’s queer history. If you want to know more about lesbians and carabiners be sure to check out this RHC TikTok: Now, I wear a carabiner on my pants,” she laughs. “Now, when I learn about them, I do them as well. They were persecuted on many levels on both gender and sexuality and so the way that they had to build community and create these little flags of identity to recognise each other has made me feel very proud and connected.
That really helps people be in awe of lesbians. “There are a lot of lesbian symbols and fashion ideas that lesbians have used to create these communities throughout history. Purely through me learning about that part of myself, I also learned it was maybe connected to my gender identity too,” he says.Īs for McElhinney, she loves all things lesbian and history. I am autistic and I realised that perhaps there was intersectionality between being autistic and my gender identity. I really like looking at the intersection between sexuality and gender. “I found a passion in exploring the history of pre-colonial gender. Together with producer Amina Soubjaki, they set out to help other queer folks and their allies learn about the past of those just like them, and they each have their favourite topics.įor Rigg, he’s all about the history of gender. In every alternate universe, it’s this,” he tells me. It was exactly what I was looking for and a million times more.
“When I tell you Rainbow History Class came out of nowhere and changed my life there are no other words I can use to describe that. For him, RHC is a personal project that gave him purpose. So, you get this vision of an army of historical figures standing behind you and you feel less alone.” “I had this idea what I was experiencing wasn’t just me feeling like a freak, but something that has existed since the beginning of time and there are millions of people throughout history just like me, and so many of them have actually fought for me. If I’d been given the opportunity to learn these stories in school, I would have come out much sooner. So finding these kinds of stories was really helpful. We all know the feeling of coming out of high school with a lot of phobias. I felt really connected to my identity and a genuine sense of pride. “Later in my 20s when I started to discover queer history, I realised there was so much brilliant stuff there. “I had the idea for rainbow history class when I was just thinking about having a terrible time in high school,” co-founder Hannah McElhinney says.
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